Hat-pin-point protector.



L. J. GAGE. HAT PIN POINT PROTECTOR. APPLICATION FILED APR-3.191Ii-m 1,l39,26%, Patented May 11, 1915. Z

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LEO J. GAGE, HILBERT,WISCONSIN.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEO J. GAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hilbert, in the county of Calumet and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hat-Pin-Point Protectors,

, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hat pin point protectors; and it has for its object the provision of a protecting device which will be simple in construction and capable of being readily connected with the point of the pin and arranged thereon so as to properly conceal the point.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a novel form of locking ring for locking the protector to the point.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hat pin, showing the application of the protector thereto; Fig. 2 is a horizontal view, showing the initial position of the protector on the point of the pin prior to adjusting the protector to a full locked and engaged position; and Fig. 3 is a section, taken longitudinally through the protector.

The hat pin 1 herein illustrated is provided at one end with an ornamental head 2 and at the point end with the usual point 3.

The protector comprises an ornamental shield 4: in the form of a disk which has secured thereto axially thereof a relatively flexible extension 5 which terminates at one end in a circular head 6 having a relatively long pin receiving passage? therein which inclines from the axial center of the shield 4, being arranged substantially at an obtuse angle thereto preferably, so that at least one half of the edge wall 8 will be exposed for positive locking engagement with the pin when said portion 6 is adjusted to lie exactly at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the pin. At least one-half of the edge wall 9 of thepassage 7 is exposed from the opposite side of the disk and arranged to cooperate with the edge wall 8, so as to engage against the pin when the disk is in the proposed position necessary to effect the required locking action of the protector Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1915.

Application filed April 8, 1913. Serial No. 759,799.

upon the pin. The extension 5 is provided axially of the opening 7 with a depending hook 10, the tongue 11 of which being disposed in spaced relation to the flexible or slightly elastic portion 5.

lVhen initially applying the protector to the pin, it is assumed that the latter is extended through the hat in the usual manner with the point 3 projected slightly beyond the crown. The protecting device is then applied to the point 3 with the walls of the opening 7 lying parallel with the axis of the pin 1. In other words the relative angle of the pin and protector respectively are made so as to permit the disk 6 of the protector to be freely adjusted on the point of the pin and in the direction of the head 2. In order to bring the protector into alinement with the pin the manipulating shield 4 is grasped in the hand of the operator and operated to cause the hook 10 to be engaged beneath the point of the pin, as shown in Fig. 1. This twisting or tortuous action of the flexible or elastic portion 5 of the protector causes the angle of the disk 6 to be shifted from its initial plane and as a consequence the locking and pin contacting surfaces 8 and 9 are brought into efi'ective clamping or looking engagement with the shank of the pin. As a consequence of this construction it is evident that the protector is retained in an applied position and in an attractive and simple manner and that the point 3 of the pin will be protected by the shield 4 and thereby held against projection, where its engagement with persons might result in serious injury.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, as claimed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A pin point protector comprising a disk having an integral relatively broad flexible extension of substantially concavo-convexed configuration, a hook carried by the extension and depending from the concaved por- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEO J. GAGE.

tion of the extension at a point between the ends thereof, and a depending angular portion formed on the extension at the free end thereof and provided with a relatively long pin receiving passage inclining downwardly and in a direction toward the terminal of said hook.

Witnesses RAYMOND GAGE, VINCENT GAGE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington. D. G." 

